• An Extra $200 Dies Tomorrow Night. Four Guided Hikes Worth a Look.

    An Extra $200 Dies Tomorrow Night. Four Guided Hikes Worth a Look.

    What You Actually Need to Know EF Adventures’ Black Friday sale saves up to $600 per person on select 2027 and 2028 tours booked by November 24, 2026, at 11:59pm PST. An extra $200 per person with code MULTI200 applies to Multi-Adventure tours booked by tomorrow, November 10, at 11:59pm PST. After that, only the…

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  • A Finished Story

    Everyone knows Italy made the first ascent of K2 in 1954. Nobody leads with the night before, when two men were left outside at 8,100 meters and one of them…

  • The Name on the Bottom of the Boot

    Six climbers died in an Alpine storm in 1935. One survivor spent the next two years arguing with a shoe, and the bottom of your boot has carried his answer…

  • The Lake That Paid

    A plane went down in Yosemite’s backcountry in 1976, carrying two dead men and three tons of marijuana. Nobody found it for six weeks. What happened after became one of…

  • Four Eyes Is Going to Treat

    The bar smelled like spilled rye and wet wool. A wood stove pushed heat into the corners of Nolan’s Hotel, Mingusville, Montana Territory. Outside, November pressed down hard on the…

  • The River That Ate Men Whole

    The Little Missouri in March 1886 did not look like a river. It looked like a wound. Snowmelt and broken ice came screaming down from the Badlands uplands, carrying cottonwood…

  • $50 and a Very Long Way Down

    Daredevil George Hopkins parachuted onto the summit of Devils Tower in 1941 for a $50 bet, becoming the only person to ever do so. But when his descent equipment failed,…

  • The Man Who Ran America’s Parks Without Anyone Knowing

    When National Park Service founder Stephen Mather was institutionalized in 1917, his 27-year-old assistant Horace Albright secretly took over—signing Mather’s name to official documents and lobbying Congress to protect Glacier…

  • The Yak Ranch That Became a Race

    The furnace kicked off at 3 a.m. The pipes had frozen again. Outside, the thermometer read 11 degrees below zero. February 1982. Altitude: 10,152 feet. A man sat at the…

  • The Warden of the Sounding Stone

    The spring mud on the Belle Fourche River bottom smelled like iron and melt. It was March 1932. Crook County, Wyoming, had 5,000 people, no jobs to speak of, and…

  • The Mountain That Started in a Van

    The van was parked outside his sister’s house in Lemon Grove, California. The date was a Wednesday. The time was 10:30 in the morning. The year was 1967. The man…